If you do nothing else today, watch this 10-minute video from Kash Jackson, a veteran who is on a righteous rant. As he says, there's a lot of profanity in this video, but he's angry. He also is connecting all the right dots.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqa5kHUr8_A&feature=youtu.be]

Official response from the water protectors' legal group on the "eviction" can be found here. Some quotes are below (my emphasis added).

The events over the past weeks have not been clashes. They have been the unlawful use of excessive force and arrests without probable cause in a vain attempt by local law enforcement to quell Native resistance to the pipeline. As hours of live-streamed videos have shown, the violence over the past months has been perpetrated by law enforcement and DAPL security against unarmed Water Protectors in blatant violation of their constitutional rights and treaty rights.

The District Commander is absolutely correct in one crucial respect: something must be done to halt the ongoing human rights abuses at Standing Rock. But the District Commander’s proposed action—to invite additional police involvement against the Water Protectors—is not it. If the District Commander is truly concerned about the safety of the Water Protectors, he will ensure that the Dakota Access Pipeline is not constructed. So long as the Dakota Access Pipeline is being constructed, Water Protectors will continue to pray and demonstrate and otherwise participate in protected First Amendment activity.

Coalition response from the Camp of the Sacred Stones, the International Indigenous Youth Council, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and Honor the Earth: "The U.S. Army Cannot Evict Us From Treaty Lands."(my emphasis in quotes below)

We are a coalition of grassroots groups living and working at the encampments, and we will not be moved. We stand united in defiance of the black snake and are committed to defense of water, our Mother Earth, and our rights as Indigenous people. We call on all people of conscience, from all Nations, to join the encampments and stand with us as we put our bodies on the line.

The Army Corps has no authority to evict us from these lands. The Oceti Sakowin encampment is located on the ancestral homeland of the Lakota, Mandan, Arikara, and Northern Cheyenne -- on territory never ceded to the U.S. government, and affirmed in the 1851 Treaty of Ft. Laramie as sovereign land belonging to the Great Sioux Nation. The encampment is, in many respects, a reclamation of this stolen territory and the right to self-determination guaranteed in the treaties. Our water protectors are not trespassers and can never be trespassers. The Army Corps also has no authority to diminish our right to free speech -- where in the Constitution does it establish zones for the right to free speech? Do corporations now decide whether the Constitution applies? We are not moving, and we will not be silenced.

Some interesting mainstream coverage from the Nation. "Police Attacked Standing Rock Activists for Hours. Why Are They Calling It a Riot?" Unfortunately, as with so many other analyses since the election, it focuses more on Trump than on Obama, but it's still good to see some attention being paid.

More mainstream coverage from Reuters: "Sunoco, behind protested Dakota pipeline, tops U.S. crude spill charts" The article is from September, but is still relevant. Boycotting Sunoco and telling them why would be a great thing to do.

**edited to add this link**How to Help Standing Rock: Links for Donations, Phone Numbers to Call, Talking Points